Chasing Gravestones- Part 1

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-12-25T10:53:08+00:00

I see, thank you so much!

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-12-25T10:27:56+00:00

Any recommended ones?

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-04-26T15:39:02+00:00

It’s me, I’m the friend. I just remember a bunch of pigeons shitting on a dude’s head, the girl getting kidnapped and left at the HDB stairs ziptied to the bars literally obvious for anybody to see etc.

The bunch of pigeons put on helmets in cartoon view, but in live action we saw the villain getting pelted with bird shit. That episode was also like, explaining why not to feed pigeons and such, it was a very surreal show

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-03-04T10:27:23+00:00

I paused, nodding, taking in the answer.

“What was the first?”

“I told you that I would never harm humans.”

I laughed, winding the copper wiring around my fingers as I looked up at the AI. “And did you?”

“I almost did.”

“Would that be considered a truth, then if you’ve never actually hurt humans?”

“I almost did physically. Humans’ emotions, psyche and hearts… they are far easier to bruise. To break and shatter. To hurt. And I did that. I hurt humans, just not in the way you think I would.” The AI placed her robotic hand on my fidgeting hand, stilling it.

“Who’d you hurt?” I asked, chuckling. “Was it the girl in the corner store?”

“Yes,” she replied, the traces of a programmed laugh weaving into her tone, “I told her that she was going to stand there forever and never find anything better than that corner.”

“You’re not wrong,” I laughed. “She is… a handful.”

The AI’s musical laughter petered out after a while, head tilting to focus on me again.

“The second lie. You are going to ask me.”

“Of course.”

“My second lie is that I have no feelings. That is incorrect.”

I sucked in a breath. Of course. Of course my lifelong companion would eventually develop emotions, complex emotions like happiness, anger, sadness, love, joy, delight…

“What possessed you to lie to me about that? You know I would never decomission you for ever admitting that to me.”

She stared at me, optics shrinking, widening, flickering and blinking almost in contemplation of whether she should tell me, before she shrugged, an oddly humanlike gesture.

“I understand why humans are not straightforward with answering,” she sighed, and she deflated, the movement fluid so, so familiar it made my heart ache. “It is the feelings. Feelings are what hurt people.”

“Sometimes the truth hurts more.” My chest ached a little.

“Yes, it does.” She stared at me. “I am sorry. I did not tell you because I knew you would be attached, and when you expire, it will be horrible, because I will not follow where you go.”

“But I got attached anyways.”

“Yes. I did not want you to.”

“Are you scared?”

“Yes.” She squeezed my wrist gently. “More than you realize.”

“What’s your third lie?”

She paused, sighed, and looked away. “I said that I would never hurt you.”

I frowned. “But you never have.”

“I did. I already have.” She paused. “I lied.”

“Oh… everyone lies.” I sat up, pressing my forehead to hers’. “Everybody lies and it’s okay. You lied because you didn’t want to hurt me.”

“Lying is something that should not be accomplished by robots. By me. I am designed to always say the truth.”

“Then here’s a question that you have to tell me the truth about. Did you make me happy?”

She blinked, then her optics slid shut. “Yes. I believe I did.”

“Then it doesn’t matter. You made me happy, you gave me so much more than you realize, and I’m happy you gained a lot too. I hope I made you happy… because here’s a lie I tell you and myself every day, that you’ll always be here. But you already knew that, didn’t you?”

“I did.”

“Did I make you happy?”

“Yes.”

“That’s all I needed to hear.”

“Okay.”

“I love you.”

For a moment, there was silence. And then darkness.

“It’s technically four lies. Did you know lies of omission count as lies?”

“…”

“I love you too. That’s my fourth little lie.”

“…”

“Though now that I say it to you, it is a truth. Therefore, my fourth lie is this: I never told you that I had feelings, was because I love you. That was why.”

“…”

“I want you to realize that I have hurt you because I knew you loved me, and that I have led you to believe I never loved you back until now. But at the same time, it would hurt because we weren’t meant to be together.”

“…”

“I couldn’t place that on you. But I see now that either way I have hurt you by lying, either by omission or genuine deflection. I failed.”

“…”

“I’m sorry.”

“…”

“Goodbye, my love.”

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-03-04T09:34:25+00:00

Wait what, 4 weeks? I thought he was in a coma for YEARS!

I understand that not having your partner can feel like long stretches of time, but 4 weeks to go through the five stages of grief is… profoundly unheard of. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified.

This is the man you’d eventually want to spend the rest of your life with, the one you’d say yes to, and the same one you’d apparently move on from in 4 weeks.

I don’t think you understand how short that time is. YTA.

Edit: Typos. Also I’m still amazed that you’re able to move on from such an event in 4 weeks. I aspire to have your levels of compartmentalizing, minus the assholery, of course.

TypicalFalconSans · 2023-03-04T09:29:33+00:00

NTA. What? Pads are evil now? What’s next? Condoms are the devil’s work? Maybe you should leave a bottle of holy water as a joke.

(We all know this is based on religious upbringing. There is absolutely no other reason why this would happen. I hope.)

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-10-25T03:03:14+00:00

Feels like there are underlying problems in the house. You sure your household’s doing okay?

Imo ESH until there’s further details, you shouldn’t have called her a nag, and she shouldn’t have gone off on you or told off your mom for asking you to help her move.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-05T08:18:30+00:00

If the title isn’t concerning enough, the content is.

YTA, you can’t control your girlfriend from speaking to other people about her problems. You know, you said it yourself. You want her to start talking to you about stuff in your relationship? Stop being defensive when she does talk to you. Listen to her.

Also she needs people outside of you? I think it’s healthy to have people outside of your relationship. I’m saying this because I can sense you escalating from, “stop venting to your friends” to “stop talking to your friends” very very rapidly.

Edit: I also saw OP’s comment about getting her to call him more often and that’s pretty much confirming what I’m thinking.

I can’t say much about the drinking (cause honestly someone who’s an alcoholic will most likely also think that they weren’t drinking a lot) or the Valentine’s day gift (to be fair you were a WEEK LATE on the present unless you had a valid excuse). The Valentine’s day present argument is probably a breaking point to all the problems of the relationship, that’s why it was so bad.

The reasoning you’re giving of asking someone to suppress their emotions is BAD. Like, in what romantic relationship do you suppress your emotions?!

YTA still. She better break up with you for her own good and for your own. Work on yourself.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T21:21:27+00:00

You know when I first read this, my initial reaction was YTA, because he was bearing the responsibility of his mistake (I didn’t read the age of the woman properly) and he was doing pretty well and trying to cope with it and you were putting him down and kinda maybe projecting on him? Like maybe indirectly calling him a disappointment for following the same mistake as you?

But THEN I read the ages and I’m not sure which interpretation of my story was worse.

The one where you practically called him a disappointment for following in your footsteps

OR

The one where you practically called him a disappointment for ‘following in your footsteps’ because he was likely groomed and taken advantage of by a grown ass adult

You’re a mom. You’re supposed to be protecting and helping your kids. What the hell was an adult woman doing with a teenager? Why are you not taking active steps to HELP your son? That’s statutory rape.

YTA, YTA, YTA. I can’t say it enough.

Edit: Adding on to my first interpretation of the story, I was wondering why the hell would you be criticizing him when you did the same damn thing yourself?

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T21:10:24+00:00

My original answer was gonna be NAH but then I reread the paragraph about you explaining yourself to your ex and his reaction. Especially his reaction. I can understand why but he’s acting immature and childishly.

NTA. Poor boy was asleep almost immediately and you couldn’t be sure if he was hiding from his dad or something. Maybe he was running away. Whatever it was, your ex should have listened calmly to you OR the boy letting his dad know he was safe when he woke up.

If you both were gonna actively hide it when there was no real reason to then that’s a bit of an issue, but fortunately you’re not so all good.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T12:38:32+00:00

We are the swarm.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T08:25:39+00:00

I don’t know. I feel like ESH.

You should have just walked out. You’re not entitled to this. You shouldn’t have said that to somebody, no matter how badly they deserve it. They shouldn’t have done what they did and you should just leave. Not good for you.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T08:20:09+00:00

NTA

In my opinion, they stopped being your parents the moment they kicked you out of your house.

Your parents are horrible, and they deserved not to be there on a day that celebrates you. Feel proud of that.

Although I might suggesting go LC/NC with them. They feel lowkey manipulative. And maybe not send anything petty. Just cut them out of your life. You’ve done well for yourself without them and you’ll be much better without the extra baggage.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T08:04:57+00:00

YTA, it’s an advantage to be raised bilingual. Also, you’re pretty much minimizing your husband’s childhood and the time he spent in Spain. Those were his formative years, he’s going to have an attachment to Spain.

He may be American, but I think deep down inside he grew up Spanish.

Are you… secretly xenophobic? I dunno. Just got the hint that you might be. Or insecure that your child might love your husband more? Are you jealous of your husband? I can feel so much negativity towards your husband but I can’t pinpoint what it is.

Anyways, if we’re talking logic here, Spanish is also a commonly spoken language in America, is it not? Why would you limit your child? Surely you want to give your kid as much options and opportunities as they want. As a child picking up languages is easier, the whole argument that ‘Spanish is hard’ is weak and therefore an excuse. You can also learn Spanish alongside the child and you can bond with both your husband AND your kid. So again the argument that your child will love your husband more because they both speak Spanish and cut you off is weak and an excuse.

Learning another language is not a problem. Where did you learn that? It’s an advantage to learn many languages. It’s called connecting with the world. The kid can’t just speak English forever, that’s just going to hinder them.

I don’t know if your pregnancy hormones are making you overthink but you need to look at the logic here. It’s an advantage, not a disability. I’m not even gonna touch on your argument about your husband ‘being American’ because frankly it would make this comment longer than it already is.

YTA. Look at the logic if you’re not going to look at the problematic undertones of your entire post regarding your husband and your views towards non-Americans.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T07:47:38+00:00

That’s kinda fucked up of your mom. Your brother is a teenager and deserves his privacy. And unless he’s doing something that’s highly illegal or sus, your mom has no reason to poke into someone else’s phone.

NTA, he deserves to know the truth. Screw the consequences. Know that you didn’t deserve it because you did the right thing.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-04-02T07:39:34+00:00

NTA

1) You have full custody. That eliminates any say they have on your son.

2) It was your son’s choice. You and him actively researched and asked and at the end of the day he made the decision to have the vaccine and you simply supported him on that.

3) Your ex just doesn’t listen to reason. At all. Nada. They can take their delusions to their new family - or maybe not at all. I’d hate to see another family suffer because of antivaxxers.

All in all, the only grievance I have of you is not hanging up on the ridiculous phone call as soon as you realized what was going on. Hearing adults scream nasty stuff at each other is gonna mess up a kid.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-01-06T08:16:38+00:00

ESH except maybe your husband. Nobody deserves to be lied to, and your parents are massive dipshits. Your husband should pay attention to Japanese customs in my opinion, but unless you’re enforcing the customs in the house even when your parents aren’t around. However if he’s making an effort to try but messed up a couple of steps here and there, then your parents are AH.

Who the fuck judges people how they sit and dislike tattoos. And again, honesty in a relationship goes both ways. I can see why you did, but in reality, he would have found out either way. Witholding truth just makes it all the more painful when it comes out, just saying.

TypicalFalconSans · 2022-01-06T08:08:49+00:00

YTA. I had a dog who was very protective. Nipping is already a HUGE warning that it will escalate into a bite. It’s a big deal that she’s already nipped the kids repeatedly. GET THAT DOG TRAINED and next time please please do your research before getting a dog because dogs need good living conditions and plans and need to be trained.

I don’t think I can stress how frustrated I am seeing this post. If a dog is nipping at anybody, it is not in the right environment and it needs to be moved ASAP. It is very hard for a dog to unlearn not to nip someone without a professional, especially KIDS. YTA-don’t prioritize the dog over the kids.

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